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May 13, 2009 - 2:04 am - by Richard Fernandez
John Lynch
2009-05-13 03:07:56

My problem with the whole thing is the dependence on computer models. I don’t think there’s enough data, and I think that the climate is much more complex than we think. When we’re making huge policy decisions based on predictions of the future of the most complex system on the planet…if we spent as much money actually researching the planet’s climate as we do “saving” it, we might learn a lot.

We can’t even predict recessions 10 years in advance, but we can predict the climate? Ten years ago, was anyone predicting that global temperatures would plateau for the next decade? That’s what happened. So, I think we don’t understand what’s actually happening, and we don’t have a good record of prediction.